Your Cheapskates Club Newsletter 43:18
In this Newsletter
1. Cath's Corner
2. In the Tip Store - A Better Way to Meal Plan; Modibodi Period Undies; Bye Bye Scuff Marks
3. Cheapskate's Winning Tip - Baking Our Own Bread Leads to Big Savings Per Year
4. Share Your Tips -
5. On the Menu - How to make chicken stock
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - Stretching the Food You have 'til it Fits Your Budget!
7. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
8. Own Your Christmas Challenge - Week 4 Tasks and Tips
9. This Week's Question - Entertainment books - are they worth the cost?
10. Ask Cath
11. Join the Cheapskates Club
12. Frequently Asked Questions
14. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
How did you go with your challenge? Did you survive on ten percent less? Did you manage to put the money you saved into your Emergency Fund?
This week the challenge is to trim ten percent off your new grocery total by stretching the foods you buy and put the money you don't spend into your Emergency Fund. There are some great tips and suggestions to help you do this in the $300 a Month Food Challenge.
Have a great week everyone, and don't forget to let us know how you go trimming those grocery bills.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
PS: Love our site? We love referrals! Send a note to your favourite newspapers, magazines, radio stations, TV stations, friends and relatives, and tell them about us!
2. From The Tip Store
A Better Way to Meal Plan
I’m in my 60’s and have shopped the same way for most my life, until I discovered marked down meat at Woolworths. I head to the meat department and scour the shelves for the markdowns, which are usually one day off the best before date. I find Friday afternoons are a good time at my local Woolworths. You could also ask the butchers when the do this? Last week I bought more than a whole week’s meat for hubby and me for $15. For example, one kilo mince for $6 which was half price and will do us three meals; two pork chops for $2, a saving of $5; 8 rissoles for $3 (two meals) a saving of $4; and a large topside steak for $4, a saving of $4. I still have chicken breasts I bought last week marked down to $3. Once I have my meat then I work out what I’m going to buy in the way of vegetables and accompaniments. Since I’ve been doing this I haven’t had leftover veggies or cans etc. in pantry that I have to work out how to use. I come home, put the meat in the freezer and use when necessary. Meal planning is done!
Contributed by Sue
Modibodi Period Undies
Best investment ever! Absolutely changed my teenage daughter's life. She used to dread that time of the month, but these super comfy undies have changed all that. The 7 pack I purchased covers her entire cycle, with zero mess, odour or discomfort. https://www.modibodi.com The initial cost is offset by the longer term benefits of not having to purchase pads or tampons. Eco warrior and happy teen, what more could a parent ask for!
Contributed by Annie
Bye Bye Scuff Marks
A cheap solution and just a quick wipe, I use Hand Sanitizer on scuff marks. They come right off and my bamboo floor stays looking great. No scrubbing required.
Contributed by Deborah
Editor's note: This works on vinyl floors too - scuff marks just wipe off. Cath
There are currently more than 12,000 great tips in the Tip Store
3. Cheapskates Winning Tip
This week's winning tip is from Michelle H. Michelle has won a one year Platinum Cheapskates Club membership for submitting her winning tip.
Baking Our Own Bread Leads to Big Savings Per Year
Every 6 months, my hubby and I review our grocery spending and take notes of where we can still eat well, but save on everyday costs. After taking note of how much we were spending on bread each week (4 loaves per week at our local bakery=$16), we decided to purchase a bread-maker from Kogan at $100 plus free delivery and make our own bread at home. Coles sell a brand of whole wheat flour in 5kg bags for $14.95 and the yeast is supplied in the bag which makes 8.5 loaves of delicious whole wheat bread per bag of flour. We have calculated that each loaf of bread costs $1.80 per loaf including the electricity to run the bread-maker. We now pay $7.20 per week for 4 loaves of bread instead of $16.00 which is half the cost of purchasing the bread at the local bakery. We now save $457.60 per year on baking our own bread at home. There is something about the smell of freshly baked bread wafting through the house. It's Divine!
Congratulations Michelle, I hope you enjoy your Cheapskates Club membership.
Bread makers aren't just for bread either. I love our bread maker, and it does make lovely bread, but I use the dough setting to make dough for scrolls and pizza, rolls, french loaves and focaccia, even pull-aparts. It's so much easier on my wrists than mixing and kneading by hand. The jam setting is brilliant if I don't have the time to stand and watch while Jam boils on the stove. I've written more about how I use our bread maker in 6 Things You can Make with a Bread Maker
4. Submit Your Tip
The Cheapskate's Club website is over 3,000 pages of money saving hints, tips and ideas. Let's get together and make the Cheapskates Club Australia's largest online hint, tip and idea library. Share your favourite money saving, time saving or energy saving hint and be in the running to win a one-year membership to The Cheapskate Club. We publish a Winning Tip each Thursday, so enter your great money, time or energy saving idea now.
Share your favourite hint or tip that saves money, time and energy and be in the running to win a one-year subscription to The Cheapskate Journal.
Remember, you have to be in it to win it!
Submit your tip
5. On the Menu
Chicken stock is so easy to make, and so much better when you make it. It's rich and thick, full of flavour. Compare that to the thin, watery packaged stocks or the over-salted, artificially coloured cubes and, well, there really isn't a comparison. Homemade stock is just better.
To make a simple stock you need:
Chicken carcasses - two or three
4 stalks celery
3 carrots
2 brown onions
4 cloves garlic
2 bay leaves
1/2 tbsp dried rosemary
1/2 tbsp dried parsley
1/2 tsp dried thyme
pepper to taste
12 cups cold water
Step 1. Add the chicken carcasses and any scrap meat to a large stockpot or saucepan.
Step 2. Add the cold water and bring to a boil.
Step 3. Add the vegetables and seasonings. Bring back to the boil and turn down to a simmer.
Step 4. Cover and simmer the stock 3 - 4 hours.
Step 5. Strain the vegetables and bones from the stock.
Step 6. Return the stock to the pot and simmer a further 1 - 1-1/2 hours until it has reduced by half.
Notes: Use the stock for gravy, to cook rice or pasta, or as a soup base. It will keep in the fridge for 3 days, and can be frozen for up to 3 months. This stock has no salt added to it during cooking; if you think it needs to be salted do so when you use it in a recipe.
I save the carcasses from roast chickens in the freezer until I have enough to make stock. You can buy fresh chicken carcases from the butcher, deli or supermarket but why pay for something you will have after a roast? The roasted bones give the stock a much richer flavour than a stock made from raw bones.
Veggies that look a little sad are perfect for making stock. If you're not making stock when you clean out the veggie crisper put those limp carrots and droopy celery sticks in a bag in the freezer until you need them.
Once the stock is done, don't throw the vegetables and bones out, add them to your compost bin.
This week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Beef
Monday: Thai fish cakes, oven chips, salad
Tuesday: Vegetable Lasagne
Wednesday: Wellington Loaf, baked vegetables
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Sweet & Sour Chicken, rice
Saturday: Pumpkin Soup
In the fruit bowl: bananas, mandarins, oranges
In the cake tin: Fruit cake
There are over 1,600 other great money saving meal ideas in the Recipe File.
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge
Stretching the Food You have 'til it Fits Your Budget!
This week's challenge is to trim another 10 per cent from your grocery budget, but you're probably thinking there's no way you can do that.
There is, and it's simple: stretch food, and I don't mean by pulling! Meat is the most expensive component of most meals, so it's the obvious place to start with the stretching.
Some simple ways to stretch food to produce more serves are:
1. Add an equal quantity of TVP, rolled oats or cooked rice to mince when making rissoles and meatballs. You'll get double the quantity, giving you and extra meal for less than half the price.
2. Stretch mince based pasta sauces and taco fillings by whizzing a tin of baked beans per 500g mince in the food processor until the crumbs are the same size as the mince crumbs, and add to the dish. You're adding bulk, and fibre, and doubling the recipe for a fraction of the cost of the same quantity of mince . When the baked beans are whizzed, they can't be detected in the pasta sauce or taco filling.
3. Add a tablespoon (or two) of milk to mayonnaise jars and bottles when they are getting low. Shake well to combine and no one will know the difference.
4. Add a little water or stock to pasta sauce jars, swish and pour into pasta sauces. You'll get every drop of sauce from the bottle and stretch it at the same time.
5. Use a silicone spatula to scrape out margarine containers, peanut butter, jam, honey, cream and Vegemite jars. You'll be shocked at just how much is left in the jar if you use just a knife to scrape it - easily two or three sandwiches worth, and that's money you'd be putting in the bin if you don't scrape.
6. Instead of serving whole chicken fillets, dice them into 2cm cubes. Two chicken breast fillets will then easily serve four (or five in our case!).
7. Don't pound meat to make it thin. Slice chicken fillets and steaks in half through the middle, creating two full fillets or steaks from each one.
8. Always take the tenderloins off chicken breast fillets and use them for a separate meal. Save them in the freezer until you have enough to make crumbed chicken wraps or dice them use them in curries and stews.
9. When mashing potato use some of the water it was steamed or boiled in instead of milk. The potato will be lovely and fluffy, no added fat and no extra cost.
10. Always make stock from roast bones. Chicken carcasses and lamb bones make lovely stock which can then be used to make soup, gravies and risottos and cook pasta.
11. Cooked meats are easier to slice if they are cold. Cut thin slices of roast chicken, beef or lamb or silverside for sandwiches and salads. And if you have an electric knife, use it to cut thin, even slices of cold meats.
12. Remember portion sizes.
The $300 a Month Food Challenge
The Post that Started it All
7. Cheapskates Buzz
From the Article Archive
15 Small Moves That Can Lead to Big Savings
A Christmas Ready Fridge
Making Sure You Own Your Christmas
Most popular forum posts this week
Cheats Recipes
Stockpiles
Daily Life and Health
Most popular blog posts this week
We've Eaten Down the Freezer
Fluffy Rice - Perfect for Frying
End of Year Spice Top-Up
8. Own Your Christmas Challenge
Week 4: It's Party Planning Week!
If you haven't sorted your Christmas entertaining yet, now is the time to do it. Before you can blink, you'll have end of year parties and school functions and work events to go to, and your own celebrations will be lost.
This week's tasks are:
Task 1: Write up this week's Christmas Cards.
Task 2: Buy, wrap and label the second lot of gifts.
Task 3: Continue working on handmade gifts, wrapping and labelling as you finish them.
Task 4: Plan your Christmas parties and dinners. Send invitations now.
Print the Christmas Hospitality Planner.
Task 5: Plan your holiday menu.
Get all the tip sheets, planners and tips for owing your Christmas here.
9. This Week's Question
Q. I was just wondering if you had any advice re the entertainment books that are sold by charities. Do you think they are worth it or it is a waste of money? Thanks for any advice. Jane
A. Entertainment Books can give great value for money providing you use them!
If you've never had one before, have a good look through the discounts available - especially for restaurants, cafes, etc that you already use.
You need to consider where you live too - can you easily access the businesses to take advantage of the discounts?
If you can find enough to cover the cost of the book, then you will be making the cost back. If not, or if you have to spend money on things that you would never normally consider then perhaps just donating $10 to the charity is a better use of your money. - Cath
10. Ask Cath
We have lots of resources to help you as you live the Cheapskates way but if you didn't find the answer to your question in our extensive archives please just drop me a note with your question.
I read and answer all questions, either in an email to you, in my weekly newsletter, the monthly Journal or by creating blog posts and other resources to help you (and other Cheapskaters).
Ask Your Question
11. Join the Cheapskates Club
For just 10 cents a day you can join the Cheapskates Club and get exclusive access to the Cheapskate Journal, the monthly e-journal that shows you how to cut the costs of everyday living and still have fun.
Joining the Cheapskates Club gives you 24/7 access to the Members Centre with 1000's of money saving tips and articles.
Click here to join the Cheapskates Club today!
12. Frequently Asked Questions
How do I change my email address?
This one is easy. Members can update their email address or any other details by clicking on "Edit Profile" directly under their membership number after they have logged in to the Member's Centre. Subscribers to our free newsletter can use the Change Your Address form (under Customer Service in the menu) and fill it out. Once you've filled it in click the send button and we'll do the rest. Please remember to include your old email address so we can find it in the list as well as the new one.
How do I know when my membership should be renewed?
When you login to the Member's Centre you will be told how many days of membership you have left once you have 30 days left. Just click on the link to renew and your membership will just continue on, uninterrupted.
What will you do with my email address?
We never rent, trade or sell our email list to anyone for any reason whatsoever. You'll never get an unsolicited email from a stranger as a result of joining this list.
How Did You Get on Our List?
You signed up to receive our Free Newsletter at our Cheapskates Club Web site or are a Platinum Cheapskates Club member
13. Contact Details
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debt free, cashed up and laughing!
Contact Cheapskates
1. Cath's Corner
2. In the Tip Store - A Better Way to Meal Plan; Modibodi Period Undies; Bye Bye Scuff Marks
3. Cheapskate's Winning Tip - Baking Our Own Bread Leads to Big Savings Per Year
4. Share Your Tips -
5. On the Menu - How to make chicken stock
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - Stretching the Food You have 'til it Fits Your Budget!
7. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
8. Own Your Christmas Challenge - Week 4 Tasks and Tips
9. This Week's Question - Entertainment books - are they worth the cost?
10. Ask Cath
11. Join the Cheapskates Club
12. Frequently Asked Questions
14. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
How did you go with your challenge? Did you survive on ten percent less? Did you manage to put the money you saved into your Emergency Fund?
This week the challenge is to trim ten percent off your new grocery total by stretching the foods you buy and put the money you don't spend into your Emergency Fund. There are some great tips and suggestions to help you do this in the $300 a Month Food Challenge.
Have a great week everyone, and don't forget to let us know how you go trimming those grocery bills.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
PS: Love our site? We love referrals! Send a note to your favourite newspapers, magazines, radio stations, TV stations, friends and relatives, and tell them about us!
2. From The Tip Store
A Better Way to Meal Plan
I’m in my 60’s and have shopped the same way for most my life, until I discovered marked down meat at Woolworths. I head to the meat department and scour the shelves for the markdowns, which are usually one day off the best before date. I find Friday afternoons are a good time at my local Woolworths. You could also ask the butchers when the do this? Last week I bought more than a whole week’s meat for hubby and me for $15. For example, one kilo mince for $6 which was half price and will do us three meals; two pork chops for $2, a saving of $5; 8 rissoles for $3 (two meals) a saving of $4; and a large topside steak for $4, a saving of $4. I still have chicken breasts I bought last week marked down to $3. Once I have my meat then I work out what I’m going to buy in the way of vegetables and accompaniments. Since I’ve been doing this I haven’t had leftover veggies or cans etc. in pantry that I have to work out how to use. I come home, put the meat in the freezer and use when necessary. Meal planning is done!
Contributed by Sue
Modibodi Period Undies
Best investment ever! Absolutely changed my teenage daughter's life. She used to dread that time of the month, but these super comfy undies have changed all that. The 7 pack I purchased covers her entire cycle, with zero mess, odour or discomfort. https://www.modibodi.com The initial cost is offset by the longer term benefits of not having to purchase pads or tampons. Eco warrior and happy teen, what more could a parent ask for!
Contributed by Annie
Bye Bye Scuff Marks
A cheap solution and just a quick wipe, I use Hand Sanitizer on scuff marks. They come right off and my bamboo floor stays looking great. No scrubbing required.
Contributed by Deborah
Editor's note: This works on vinyl floors too - scuff marks just wipe off. Cath
There are currently more than 12,000 great tips in the Tip Store
3. Cheapskates Winning Tip
This week's winning tip is from Michelle H. Michelle has won a one year Platinum Cheapskates Club membership for submitting her winning tip.
Baking Our Own Bread Leads to Big Savings Per Year
Every 6 months, my hubby and I review our grocery spending and take notes of where we can still eat well, but save on everyday costs. After taking note of how much we were spending on bread each week (4 loaves per week at our local bakery=$16), we decided to purchase a bread-maker from Kogan at $100 plus free delivery and make our own bread at home. Coles sell a brand of whole wheat flour in 5kg bags for $14.95 and the yeast is supplied in the bag which makes 8.5 loaves of delicious whole wheat bread per bag of flour. We have calculated that each loaf of bread costs $1.80 per loaf including the electricity to run the bread-maker. We now pay $7.20 per week for 4 loaves of bread instead of $16.00 which is half the cost of purchasing the bread at the local bakery. We now save $457.60 per year on baking our own bread at home. There is something about the smell of freshly baked bread wafting through the house. It's Divine!
Congratulations Michelle, I hope you enjoy your Cheapskates Club membership.
Bread makers aren't just for bread either. I love our bread maker, and it does make lovely bread, but I use the dough setting to make dough for scrolls and pizza, rolls, french loaves and focaccia, even pull-aparts. It's so much easier on my wrists than mixing and kneading by hand. The jam setting is brilliant if I don't have the time to stand and watch while Jam boils on the stove. I've written more about how I use our bread maker in 6 Things You can Make with a Bread Maker
4. Submit Your Tip
The Cheapskate's Club website is over 3,000 pages of money saving hints, tips and ideas. Let's get together and make the Cheapskates Club Australia's largest online hint, tip and idea library. Share your favourite money saving, time saving or energy saving hint and be in the running to win a one-year membership to The Cheapskate Club. We publish a Winning Tip each Thursday, so enter your great money, time or energy saving idea now.
Share your favourite hint or tip that saves money, time and energy and be in the running to win a one-year subscription to The Cheapskate Journal.
Remember, you have to be in it to win it!
Submit your tip
5. On the Menu
Chicken stock is so easy to make, and so much better when you make it. It's rich and thick, full of flavour. Compare that to the thin, watery packaged stocks or the over-salted, artificially coloured cubes and, well, there really isn't a comparison. Homemade stock is just better.
To make a simple stock you need:
Chicken carcasses - two or three
4 stalks celery
3 carrots
2 brown onions
4 cloves garlic
2 bay leaves
1/2 tbsp dried rosemary
1/2 tbsp dried parsley
1/2 tsp dried thyme
pepper to taste
12 cups cold water
Step 1. Add the chicken carcasses and any scrap meat to a large stockpot or saucepan.
Step 2. Add the cold water and bring to a boil.
Step 3. Add the vegetables and seasonings. Bring back to the boil and turn down to a simmer.
Step 4. Cover and simmer the stock 3 - 4 hours.
Step 5. Strain the vegetables and bones from the stock.
Step 6. Return the stock to the pot and simmer a further 1 - 1-1/2 hours until it has reduced by half.
Notes: Use the stock for gravy, to cook rice or pasta, or as a soup base. It will keep in the fridge for 3 days, and can be frozen for up to 3 months. This stock has no salt added to it during cooking; if you think it needs to be salted do so when you use it in a recipe.
I save the carcasses from roast chickens in the freezer until I have enough to make stock. You can buy fresh chicken carcases from the butcher, deli or supermarket but why pay for something you will have after a roast? The roasted bones give the stock a much richer flavour than a stock made from raw bones.
Veggies that look a little sad are perfect for making stock. If you're not making stock when you clean out the veggie crisper put those limp carrots and droopy celery sticks in a bag in the freezer until you need them.
Once the stock is done, don't throw the vegetables and bones out, add them to your compost bin.
This week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Beef
Monday: Thai fish cakes, oven chips, salad
Tuesday: Vegetable Lasagne
Wednesday: Wellington Loaf, baked vegetables
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Sweet & Sour Chicken, rice
Saturday: Pumpkin Soup
In the fruit bowl: bananas, mandarins, oranges
In the cake tin: Fruit cake
There are over 1,600 other great money saving meal ideas in the Recipe File.
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge
Stretching the Food You have 'til it Fits Your Budget!
This week's challenge is to trim another 10 per cent from your grocery budget, but you're probably thinking there's no way you can do that.
There is, and it's simple: stretch food, and I don't mean by pulling! Meat is the most expensive component of most meals, so it's the obvious place to start with the stretching.
Some simple ways to stretch food to produce more serves are:
1. Add an equal quantity of TVP, rolled oats or cooked rice to mince when making rissoles and meatballs. You'll get double the quantity, giving you and extra meal for less than half the price.
2. Stretch mince based pasta sauces and taco fillings by whizzing a tin of baked beans per 500g mince in the food processor until the crumbs are the same size as the mince crumbs, and add to the dish. You're adding bulk, and fibre, and doubling the recipe for a fraction of the cost of the same quantity of mince . When the baked beans are whizzed, they can't be detected in the pasta sauce or taco filling.
3. Add a tablespoon (or two) of milk to mayonnaise jars and bottles when they are getting low. Shake well to combine and no one will know the difference.
4. Add a little water or stock to pasta sauce jars, swish and pour into pasta sauces. You'll get every drop of sauce from the bottle and stretch it at the same time.
5. Use a silicone spatula to scrape out margarine containers, peanut butter, jam, honey, cream and Vegemite jars. You'll be shocked at just how much is left in the jar if you use just a knife to scrape it - easily two or three sandwiches worth, and that's money you'd be putting in the bin if you don't scrape.
6. Instead of serving whole chicken fillets, dice them into 2cm cubes. Two chicken breast fillets will then easily serve four (or five in our case!).
7. Don't pound meat to make it thin. Slice chicken fillets and steaks in half through the middle, creating two full fillets or steaks from each one.
8. Always take the tenderloins off chicken breast fillets and use them for a separate meal. Save them in the freezer until you have enough to make crumbed chicken wraps or dice them use them in curries and stews.
9. When mashing potato use some of the water it was steamed or boiled in instead of milk. The potato will be lovely and fluffy, no added fat and no extra cost.
10. Always make stock from roast bones. Chicken carcasses and lamb bones make lovely stock which can then be used to make soup, gravies and risottos and cook pasta.
11. Cooked meats are easier to slice if they are cold. Cut thin slices of roast chicken, beef or lamb or silverside for sandwiches and salads. And if you have an electric knife, use it to cut thin, even slices of cold meats.
12. Remember portion sizes.
The $300 a Month Food Challenge
The Post that Started it All
7. Cheapskates Buzz
From the Article Archive
15 Small Moves That Can Lead to Big Savings
A Christmas Ready Fridge
Making Sure You Own Your Christmas
Most popular forum posts this week
Cheats Recipes
Stockpiles
Daily Life and Health
Most popular blog posts this week
We've Eaten Down the Freezer
Fluffy Rice - Perfect for Frying
End of Year Spice Top-Up
8. Own Your Christmas Challenge
Week 4: It's Party Planning Week!
If you haven't sorted your Christmas entertaining yet, now is the time to do it. Before you can blink, you'll have end of year parties and school functions and work events to go to, and your own celebrations will be lost.
This week's tasks are:
Task 1: Write up this week's Christmas Cards.
Task 2: Buy, wrap and label the second lot of gifts.
Task 3: Continue working on handmade gifts, wrapping and labelling as you finish them.
Task 4: Plan your Christmas parties and dinners. Send invitations now.
Print the Christmas Hospitality Planner.
Task 5: Plan your holiday menu.
Get all the tip sheets, planners and tips for owing your Christmas here.
9. This Week's Question
Q. I was just wondering if you had any advice re the entertainment books that are sold by charities. Do you think they are worth it or it is a waste of money? Thanks for any advice. Jane
A. Entertainment Books can give great value for money providing you use them!
If you've never had one before, have a good look through the discounts available - especially for restaurants, cafes, etc that you already use.
You need to consider where you live too - can you easily access the businesses to take advantage of the discounts?
If you can find enough to cover the cost of the book, then you will be making the cost back. If not, or if you have to spend money on things that you would never normally consider then perhaps just donating $10 to the charity is a better use of your money. - Cath
10. Ask Cath
We have lots of resources to help you as you live the Cheapskates way but if you didn't find the answer to your question in our extensive archives please just drop me a note with your question.
I read and answer all questions, either in an email to you, in my weekly newsletter, the monthly Journal or by creating blog posts and other resources to help you (and other Cheapskaters).
Ask Your Question
11. Join the Cheapskates Club
For just 10 cents a day you can join the Cheapskates Club and get exclusive access to the Cheapskate Journal, the monthly e-journal that shows you how to cut the costs of everyday living and still have fun.
Joining the Cheapskates Club gives you 24/7 access to the Members Centre with 1000's of money saving tips and articles.
Click here to join the Cheapskates Club today!
12. Frequently Asked Questions
How do I change my email address?
This one is easy. Members can update their email address or any other details by clicking on "Edit Profile" directly under their membership number after they have logged in to the Member's Centre. Subscribers to our free newsletter can use the Change Your Address form (under Customer Service in the menu) and fill it out. Once you've filled it in click the send button and we'll do the rest. Please remember to include your old email address so we can find it in the list as well as the new one.
How do I know when my membership should be renewed?
When you login to the Member's Centre you will be told how many days of membership you have left once you have 30 days left. Just click on the link to renew and your membership will just continue on, uninterrupted.
What will you do with my email address?
We never rent, trade or sell our email list to anyone for any reason whatsoever. You'll never get an unsolicited email from a stranger as a result of joining this list.
How Did You Get on Our List?
You signed up to receive our Free Newsletter at our Cheapskates Club Web site or are a Platinum Cheapskates Club member
13. Contact Details
The Cheapskates Club -
Showing you how to live life
debt free, cashed up and laughing!
Contact Cheapskates